Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Madison, WI

Build and operate core data infrastructure for edge and hybrid environments, including ingestion, OT/IoT integrations, real-time streaming, data contracts, schemas, validation, lineage, observability, telemetry, and scalable query access. The role requires production ownership, reliability practices, customer integration, and collaboration across engineering and customer-facing teams. Candidates should have 6+ years of experience with production data, streaming, or integration systems and proficiency in Python and/or Go.

Build, deploy, and operate production-grade data pipelines and data products for healthcare audiences. Design transformations, data models, and governed views using Python, SQL, Airflow, S3, Snowflake, and EMR. Implement data-quality, monitoring, and privacy-by-design controls for PHI/PII. Partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to onboard sources, support audience discovery, segmentation, activation, measurement, and troubleshoot production issues.

Designs, analyzes, documents, integrates, and migrates complex environmental datasets for AirHub business lines. Responsibilities include analyzing legacy databases, creating logical and physical data models, documenting mappings and business rules, developing migration specifications and API integrations, supporting data governance and testing, and producing technical documentation. The role also requires close collaboration with business stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.

Lead financial data engineering initiatives involving commissions, incentive programs, and backend financial systems. Build scalable, accurate, and reliable data pipelines, platform tooling, partner integrations, analytics infrastructure, and data science infrastructure. Shape technical strategy and roadmaps, collaborate with Finance, Product, Data Science, and Engineering, mentor engineers, contribute code, lead incident response, and establish engineering standards.

Design, build, and maintain scalable big data pipelines, architectures, distributed databases, and storage systems. Use Python and frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, or Flink for data integration, transformation, and processing. Ensure system performance, availability, security, governance, and data quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams and documenting technical solutions.

Build scalable data and AI platforms, APIs, intelligent agents, and cloud-native applications using generative AI and LLMs. Lead architecture and technical strategy, create reusable AI frameworks and services, establish governance and security practices, and provide hands-on engineering leadership through coding, reviews, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

Develops scalable data models, Databricks pipelines, backend applications, ETL processes, and data ingestion systems. Partners with engineering, product, and business stakeholders on technical roadmaps; monitors and optimizes data systems for performance, reliability, and scalability. Provides technical leadership, mentors junior engineers, conducts code reviews, and builds secure solutions for sensitive healthcare data.

Clean and reconcile employee master data and historical leave records from multiple sources. Define standardized HR data structures, establish validation and access controls, and automate leave request, approval, and balance tracking workflows using Google Workspace or a suitable alternative. Document maintenance processes and support potential expansion across international branches. The contractor will independently manage the fixed-scope project, propose an RFQ, and provide timeline, hours, costs, assumptions, and deliverables.

Build and operate scalable cloud data pipelines, warehouses, transformation layers, and ML production systems. Lead data infrastructure architecture, warehouse performance optimization, DataOps monitoring, CI/CD improvements, data quality testing, and large-scale data product delivery. Collaborate across teams, promote data stewardship, and support batch and streaming pipelines while deploying, serving, and monitoring machine learning models.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Northbeam’s data ingestion and integration platform. Design scalable API-based ETL, event-driven and batch processing systems; establish standards for observability, freshness, and failure handling; and guide build-versus-buy decisions. Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and driving complex platform initiatives to completion.

Leads the design, optimization, and governance of scalable data architectures and pipelines. Ensures data quality, integrity, security, and compliance; mentors junior engineers; conducts audits and validation; and collaborates on data governance. The role requires expertise in SQL, Python, dimensional modeling, Snowflake on Azure, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, ETL, and data warehousing, with preferred experience in Airflow, Kafka, healthcare, data lineage, and slowly changing dimensions.

As the founding engineer of the Data Intelligence team, you will design semantic layers, develop AI tooling, and automate data processes to drive business insights.

Lead design and scaling of the data platform and analytics pipelines. Build and maintain ETL/ELT workflows, integrations, serverless data services, and reliable data models. Mentor teammates, improve automation, observability, and data governance to support analytics and operational insights.

Own and evolve the data infrastructure powering identity and fraud products. Build and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure data quality and observability, optimize storage and access, support product squads, respond to production incidents, mentor engineers, and drive data platform innovation.

Lead the Data Platform Engineering team owning ETL/reverse-ETL pipelines, replication, and production datastores. Define architecture, roadmap, standards (IaC, observability, schema contracts), mentor engineers, drive incident response and durable fixes, and partner on cross-team technical decisions and operational reliability for data correctness, completeness, and timeliness.

Designs and maintains healthcare data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, data models, and analytical frameworks. Analyzes claims and payer data to identify trends and insights, while ensuring data quality and integrity. Creates reports, dashboards, and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders and collaborates with healthcare policy experts, analysts, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions. The role also improves data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.

Designs and delivers analytics solutions on Snowflake using dbt, SQL, and modern ELT practices. Responsibilities include data modeling, pipeline development, migrations, performance optimization, data quality, security, orchestration, CI/CD, and release management. Leads discovery and requirements gathering, translates business needs into analytics architectures, provides technical guidance, and communicates recommendations to client stakeholders in agile consulting environments.

Architect and operate BILL’s enterprise data platform across ingestion, lake storage, batch and streaming processing, query, feature store, knowledge graph, and search layers. Drive platform-wide technical decisions, migrations, standards, reliability, cost efficiency, and self-service capabilities. Partner with ML, Risk, Payments, and Analytics teams to deliver scalable solutions, lead complex initiatives from inception through production, and mentor senior and staff engineers.

Lead design and operation of large-scale data pipelines and data APIs. Build Spark/PySpark workflows on Databricks, optimize job performance, manage data quality and observability, and develop MCP servers and AI-agent integrations. Mentor engineers, define standards, support production incidents and on-call rotations, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data platform products.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Snowflake data pipelines and workflows. Ingest, transform, and deliver data from EHRs, claims, APIs, and CRM systems into analytics-ready structures. Optimize Snowflake performance and costs through warehouse sizing, query tuning, data modeling, and security design. Implement orchestration, DevOps, version control, and CI/CD practices while collaborating with client architects and analysts. The role also involves explaining technical tradeoffs, supporting repeatable deployments, adapting to unfamiliar challenges, and mentoring others.

Build and maintain IICS ETL/ELT pipelines, develop Amazon Redshift data models, and use SQL and Python for data transformation and automation. Create Power BI reporting models, implement data quality checks, document pipelines, and collaborate with client stakeholders and engineering teams. The role requires autonomous work, strong communication, and the ability to translate technical solutions into business context, with bonus value for Veeva or life sciences experience.

Build and maintain modern data-centric applications, pipelines, transformations, enrichment processes, provisioning layers, and user interfaces supporting clinical and operational healthcare processes. Analyze clinical data and report trends using cloud, big data, data science, and modern software development practices. Collaborate with Product, Platform, and Architecture teams, mentor Data Engineers, document solutions, manage source control, and research emerging technologies.

Design, develop, and maintain Customer Data Platform solutions and data pipelines to create unified customer profiles, manage identity resolution, enable audience segmentation and activation, ensure data quality and governance, and support integrations with marketing, CRM, and cloud data systems.

Designs and scales cloud-native data platforms and ingestion pipelines using AWS, Databricks, and Spark. Builds APIs, file-upload mechanisms, ETL/ELT workflows, and Lakehouse architectures; supports SQL Server data loading and legacy C# .NET processes. Partners with analytics, software engineering, architecture, and product teams to ensure data quality and availability for reporting and machine learning. Troubleshoots pipelines and applies governance, security, compliance, documentation, and reliability best practices.

Build and manage end-to-end marketing data platforms on Google Cloud. Responsibilities include configuring GA4 and Google Tag Manager, creating BigQuery ingestion pipelines, managing Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, IAM, and service accounts, developing LookML semantic models and dashboards, and orchestrating ETL and reverse ETL workflows. The role also supports CDP integrations, identity resolution, audience syncing, experimentation, data quality assurance, and lifecycle marketing analytics.